That’s an opening premise behind Surviving Mars, a sci-fi settlement builder all about colonizing Mars and surviving the process.

Choose a space agency for resources and financial support before determining a location for your colony.

Build domes and infrastructure, research new possibilities and utilize drones to unlock more elaborate ways to shape and expand your settlement.

Cultivate your own food, mine minerals or just relax by the bar after a hard day’s work.

Most important of all, though, is keeping your colonists alive. Not an easy task on a strange new planet.

Management strategy game

Credit: Paradox Interactive/Haemimont Games

Paradox Interactive, a publisher of games, has announced that Surviving Mars, the upcoming management strategy game from Haemimont Games, will launch for all systems on March 15, 2018.

Surviving Mars will put players in charge of planning, designing, and maintaining a sustainable colony on the red planet, and players will be able to undertake this mission on the Xbox One, on the PlayStation®4 console, and on Linux, MacOS, and Windows PCs.

This game will be available starting at a suggested retail price of $39.99 on all platforms.